2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 3 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because of cost?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,715 664 15.1 13.8-16.5 4,051 84.9 83.5-86.2
Region 3 399 50 12.5 9.3-16.6 349 87.5 83.4-90.7
GENDER
Male 192 14 6.9 3.9-12.1 178 93.1 87.9-96.1
Female 207 36 17.6 12.6-24.2 171 82.4 75.8-87.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 321 34 10.4 7.3-14.7 287 89.6 85.3-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 126 23 14.9 9.5-22.7 103 85.1 77.3-90.5
45-64 137 21 14.9 9.6-22.4 116 85.1 77.6-90.4
65+ 131 *** *** *** 126 95.4 88.6-98.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 147 22 14.3 9.2-21.6 125 85.7 78.4-90.8
Some Post-H.S. 115 14 12.1 7.0-19.9 101 87.9 80.1-93.0
College Graduate 136 14 10.5 5.6-19.0 122 89.5 81.0-94.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 165 30 19.6 13.5-27.6 135 80.4 72.4-86.5
$50,000+ 149 *** *** *** 140 94.2 88.4-97.2
Don't know/Not Sure 80 *** *** *** 70 88.6 79.0-94.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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